baba-louie:

i’m so sick of violence.

everywhere i look now, someone is being shot or killed.

• have you guys heard about the pizza delivery man who was stabbed 70 times after answering a call to an abandoned house? Well, one of the murders went to middle school with my sister.
• 3 teens this past month killed themselves over bullying.
• 3 or 4 people, one of them being a toddler, were shot and killed in Mattapan recently.
• A teen at the town high school has to undergo at least one major eye surgery after having a glass bottle shatter against his face when it was thrown out of a speeding car as he was running with his track team.
• My friends neighbor killed himself after his fiance left him.

The other day, my dad was telling my sister and i about the poor guy who has to get the eye surgery, and he started the conversation with “Do you know ____? He was just on the news.”

The first thing that popped into my (i didn’t personally know the guy, for the record) was that he killed/shot/stabbed someone, or that someone had done that to him. I wasn’t far off.

It’s not normal for a 15 year old girl not feel safe at night when she hears people walking down the street. It’s not normal for her to have dreams about people shot on her front lawn.

I just wish it would all stop.